Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
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